Your 2017 Age Spot Corrector Guide

We'll help you find the right age spot corrector for you, and avoid the harmful ingredients.

Updated 12/11/2017

We all dream of the even-toned complexions that grace movie screens and magazine covers.

Top beauty brands caught on, and they've been flooding store shelves with age spot correctors promising a youthful complexion. Unfortunately,many of them include cheap, possibly harmful fillers, while others simply don’t work.

With so many false promises, finding a quality corrector can be both confusing and expensive. That’s why we’ve compiled years of research to help you choose the right product.

Why Do Age Spots Happen?

Most skin blemishes are the result of extra melanin deposits in our skin. This natural pigment serves as a shield against potentially harmful UV rays, so when our skin is exposed to sun over a long period of time, it produces extra melanin to compensate.

Unfortunately, sometimes this melanin pools in certain areas of the skin, which then causes visible age spots. Age spot correctors fix this problem by exfoliating the area and then preventing melanin from forming again later on.

Age spot correctors contain better ingredients than others, so it's critical to know exactly what you need.

What to Look for in an Age Spot Corrector:

Vitamin B3

Otherwise known as niacin, this vitamin not only helps decrease skin pigmentation, but may also boost the dermal immune system and maintain a smooth complexion.

Kojic Dipalmitate

This natural ingredient is extracted from numerous species of mushroom and other plant sources. It helps exfoliate and inhibit excessmelanin production in the skin.

BEWARE

After surveying 67 age spot correctors, we unfortunately only found 3 that we would recommend to our readers. There were an alarming number of questionable products with either sub-standard ingredients, or confusing money-back guarantees. The age spot correctors we did find, however, all boast extremely positive customer reviews and effective ingredients.

THE RESULTS ARE IN...

After surveying over 10,000 user reviews and then carefully studying the products, only a select few age spot correctors offered users natural ingredients that evened out their skin tone, improved hydration, and promoted the appearance of youthful skin. Quality age spot correctors aren't easy to find, and out of 67 products that we reviewed, only 3 of them carry our recommendations. Here are our Top 3 Picks.

Simple Beauty won our #1 Best Choice Award for a variety of reasons. The Skin-Brightening Spot Corrector is packed with vitamin B3, kojic dipalmitate, glycerin, and cetearyl olivate. Even better, it contains no fillers or additives.

Users reported positive results, including radiant-looking skin, deep hydration and an even tone. For them, the competitors didn't come close.

Simple Beauty also ranked the highest in customer service. The wait time to be connected to a service representative was the quickest of every brand we tested, coming in at only 32 seconds. Even better, the agent we spoke with was both knowledgeable and happy to answer our questions.

While Skinceuticals is paraben-free and clearly lists its ingredients on their website, many of their additives aren't as natural as Simple Beauty's Skin-Brightening Spot Corrector. It also fails to include kojic acid and cetearyl olivate. Another downside is the high price. Otherwise, users gave this product high marks in the categories of customer service, returns, and overall effectiveness. Though users loved the Advanced Pigment Spot Corrector, the extra additives and high price brings it down to #2 on our list of top correctors.

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Murad Rapid Age Spot and Pigment Lightening Serum comes in a solid third position, having bested dozens of other spot correctors on the market. We were wary of adding it to our list, however, as it contains 2%hydroquinone. Users rated the product so highly that we decided to include it anyway, with a note of warning to potential customers. While hydroquinone is extremely effective at diminishing the appearance of age spots, it's not a safe, natural ingredient. Murad does make up for this by avoiding parabens, pthalates and sulfates, but we still recommend exercising caution. Since some users swore by Murad's Rapid Age Spot and Pigment Lightening Serum, it came in at #3 in our top picks.

P.S. While Essential Elements is the best spot corrector we've found, we would still love to hear about any others you've tried. If you have had a great experience of your own, please send me an email to Beverly@ConsumersSurvey.org with the details.

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Beverly GratsonSenior Health Editor

As a consumer herself, Beverly is extremely dedicated to gathering and collecting reports and information and always on the lookout for highly-rated supplements. She's especially passionate about education consumers in making wise decisions when it comes to purchasing health products.

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